The president of the state company SBI was able to deliver news that had been expected for more than a month: the reserves of Severine Passmain source of water to supply Montevideo and the metropolitan area, rose.
Although the rise is meager for the requirements of half the country to overcome the water crisis, it is a “balm” to the critical situationhe explained.
According to the Thursday night report issued by the Presidency, the flow of the Paso Severino dam is at 1,134,484 cubic meters, which represents 17,002 m3 more than the previous day’s report.
Yesterday too Sodium and chloride levels dropped compared to those of Wednesday. In the three pumping lines it was below the limit of 440 milligrams per liter (mg/l) and chlorides (720 mg/l).
The volume of precipitation between Tuesday night and Thursday morning doubled all the rain that fell in June, the OSE president explained in his report. Paso Severino accumulated 20.7 mm and the Santa Lucia River it reached 28.5mm.
A pause that is not a solution to the crisis in Montevideo
Although these values are welcome, they are still insufficient. “In the month we would need it to rain around 80 to 90 millimeters which is the meteorological statistics, or how much it should rain at this time of year, also taking into account that the winter season is when it rains the least, contrary to what is thought. But if we reached that accumulated value of 80 or 90 millimeters throughout the month, that would be normal values for the time of year,” explained the director of Inumet Meteorological Services, Natali Bentancor.
Earlier yesterday Montero exposed, during an event at the Manuel Oribe Institute of the National Party, about the Arazati projectalso known as Neptuno, whose objective is to build a privately financed water treatment plant.
In this sense, the president of OSE highlighted the importance that the project has to “remove the fragility of the drinking water supply to the entire metropolitan system”, despite the fact that the National Academy of Sciences He pointed out that the initiative “violates water security and sustainability.”
Source: Ambito
